Month: May 2006

The Pioneer Inno for XM Radio is a cool device that lets owners record songs and programs onto the mobile device and that has gotten the RIAA tied up in knots.  The music industry representative who has sued everyone from little old grandmothers to children has sued XM Radio and is asking for $150,000 for each song that XM customers have recorded.  We shouldn’t be surprised as the RIAA has already extorted a “recording fee” from Sirius Radio who paid up rather than face long litigation but XM Radio balked and are now seeing the results.  I wish the RIAA would just go away and realize that fair use is fair use.  Give me a break!  Tell you what, why don’t we organize over the web and declare a day “no buy music nor videos day” world-wide.  Let’s show them that we vote with our wallets and hit them the only place they understand.

-jk

Originally posted by jk from jkOnTheRun

Don’t know about Gina or Keith, but if you’re anything like me you have no idea what any of those symbols on the tags of your clothing mean when it comes time to do laundry. My method of dealing with this has been to ignore the symbols and most washing directions entirely, but web site Textile Affaires has a breakdown of what these symbols mean, along with detailed washing, bleaching, drying, ironing, and drycleaning instructions. Thanks Cathy!

 
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The Forearm Forklift, a handy type of strap that helps two people move heavy, big furniture, is reviewed in Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools. Link

Originally posted by Mark Frauenfelder from Boing Boing

Filed under: Desktops

Want an Intel-based Mac but don’t want to pay  Apple’s prices? A company called Red PCs may have what you’re looking for — if you’re willing to face the wrath of Apple’s lawyers. Red PC is now offering something they’re calling a “PowerPC G6 Macintosh” for $499. According to the specs, the box is basically a generic Pentium-based PC running a hacked version of the Intel version of Mac OS X. For your $499, the company is also throwing in copies of Photoshop CS2 and Microsoft Office 2004, making this quite the deal, given that Photoshop alone can go for over $400. But, then, we assume you’re prepared to deal with Adobe and Microsoft’s lawyers as well if you’re ready to buy this. Unfortunately (or fortunately, as the case may be), the Red PCs web site seems to be down, though the machine is still listed on the Alibaba.com site as available for purchase with free global shipping and a one-year warranty.

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Originally posted by Marc Perton from Engadget

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Wow, Sony. Sixty. The golden years. (You’re not going to retire any time soon, are you? No — good.) How far you’ve come since May 7th 1946, when Masaru Ibuka, post-war engineering entrepreneur and gadget forefather established Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Totsuko) with Akio Morita, founding the company we now know and cherish (um, most of the time) as Sony. We’ve seen you go through a lot of changes over the years as you’ve started up and shut down lines of devices, won and lost format wars, taken on board content companies, and occasionally struggled for direction in the marketplace — but even though we dish out a lot of tough love we know someday you’ll understand. Happy birthday, Sony.

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Originally posted by Ryan Block from Engadget